
Sport
Promoting gender equality in sport
ENRIQUE MIRANDA
SUR to create an advisory committee in a bid to help promote equality in its sports coverage and across the newspapers. Malaga captain, Adriana Martín; former Olympic athlete, Dana Cervantes; rugby referee, Alhambra Nievas; former basketball player, ... stressed that, as with all news, certain criteria always had to be applied. How the news is reported Dana Cervantes, as a former elite athlete, spoke from personal experience: “I was always given equal treatment by the federation, in championships, in ... while women's sport is more a thing of beauty, a spectacle.” Alhambra Nievas, who took part via conference call from Santander, said that while her experience with the press has been mostly positive, “a female athlete is often used as a sexual object